Screening Dates: Sunday, May 10, 2026, 2:00 PM / Thursday, June 11, 2026, 8:00 PM / Tuesday, June 30, 2026, 8:00 PM

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Cast: Duangjai Hiransri, Khom Kongkiat Khomsiri, Saisiri Xoomsai

Thailand / 2000 / 89 min. / Black and White / DCP / Thai / With Turkish and English Subtitles

The director of the Palme d’Or-winning Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, presents his debut film, an experimental work that blurs the boundaries between fiction and documentary cinema. Mysterious Object at Noon unfolds layer by layer through a story built around a game played by a film crew with the people they encounter in rural Thailand, moving fluidly between genres. This extraordinary film by Weerasethakul, a director unique to Thai cinema, is a visual feast thanks to its shooting process that spanned over two years and its black-and-white imagery captured on 16mm film.

* To be screened in 3K restored version.

** Restored in 2013 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project initiative and the Austrian Film Museum. The restoration work was carried out in collaboration with Apichatpong Weerasethakul at the Austrian Film Museum, the LISTO laboratory in Vienna, Technicolor Ltd in Bangkok, and the Cineteca di Bologna / L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory.